Complete Desktop Publishing & Typesetting Services
Whether you got an idea for a logo drawn on a napkin or rough brochure in Microsoft Word, we can convert it to a professional desktop publishing format ready for commercial printing or the web. We work in QuarkXPress 4, 5, and 6; Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat and PageMaker. We have over 15 years experience in producing, designing and printing Annual Reports, Books, Cookbooks, Menus, Tear Sheets, One-offs, Posters, Business Cards, Stationery, or anything else that can be printed.
No matter what you need designed or produced, we can do it at WTS+S. Our clients have included IBM, Time Warner and Adobe. Macaxis can deliver your print project faster, better, and cheaper, because of our:
- Low Overhead—you deal directly with the owner and a handful of freelancers
- Over 15 years of experience with QuarkXpress, Photohshop, Illustrator, PostScript and Fontsóthat translates directly in to time-saving expertise
- Substantial knowledge of foreign language typography, specializing in East European alphabets (e.g., romanian, turkish, albanian, slovenian, serbian, greek, czech, slovakian, croatian, bulgarian, ukranian, russian, and even more)
- A solid network of quick printing and specialty printers to give you unheard of turnaround time and value pricing on any type of print work
We also convert professional designs (done by us or someone else) for use with standard office software such as Microsoft Office for the Mac and Windows.
Desktop Publishing Production does not include graphic design.
Normal Production Rates
Offsite and Extended Business Hours-same rate:
$40 per hour, 2 hour minumum, billed in quarter-hour increments thereafter.
Rush Production Rates
48 hour turnaround before press-time constitutes a RUSH.
$150 per hour, 2 hour minimum, billed in hourly increments only.
Design/Authoring Rates
Normal and Extended Business Hours-same rate:
$125 per hour, 2 hour minumum, billed in quarter-hour increments thereafter.
OR
A project-based fee.
Foreign Alphabet Typesetting
We have maintained an active and abiding interest in comparative orthographies (a fancy name for writing systems) and languages for over 30 years. We have reading knowledge of Latin, Classical Greek, Hebrew, French, German and Spanish. We also have cursory knowledge of Italian, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Albanian, Turkish, Romanian, Welsh, Irish Gaelic, Hungarian, and Russian. We are comfortable typesetting in the following typographic ranges:
LATIN BASED ALPHABET RANGE
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GREEK RANGE
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CYRILLIC RANGE
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IMPORTANT NOTE!
Though we can and do typeset in any of languages mentioned above, we do not claim fluency in any of them and are not a translation or proofreading service for any of the above languages.